BU Today Fugard's Blood Knot Still Resonates BU Today Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play set in South Africa's apartheid era about two biracial brothers, one fairer skinned than the other, hit a raw nerve when it premiered in Johannesburg in 1961.

'Slit my wrists, my blood does not excrete in black and white' prophesizes 13-year old Zora in her poem entitled 'Bi-Racial Hair' which was performed live in front of 1500 of her peers and adult allies at the 2006 Urban Word ...

Wesleyan Connection (blog) Essays by Liang '92 Published in Academic Journal, Anthology Wesleyan Connection (blog) Her essay, “Transforming Three Sisters, A Hapa Family in Chekov's Modern Classic,” was included in the academic journal Asian...

The first was Nancy Matsumoto's excellent review (December 26, 2012) of Nikkei/Hapa psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu's latest book When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, and the second was a first-person essay ( January 3,...

'Rage Is Back,' by Adam Mansbach New York Times Mansbach's hero and narrator, Kilroy Dondi Vance — his name a lovely amalgam of graffiti artists and subject — is a contemporary mixed-race Brooklyn teenager who has grown up without a father.

One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and ...

Haaretz On the African diaspora and the search for Zion Haaretz I grew up biracial in a country still rigidly divided along racial lines. It was hard to feel I belonged, because I couldn't be easily identified as black or white.

The second is more recent and involves the post Civil Rights expansion of interracial marriage and mixed-race identities. Streeter analyzes the collision of these two narratives, the cultural anxieties they have triggered, and ...

will be handy for my dissertation on the same topic, only difference is i am tracing the trajectory of mixed-race from antebellum till date, declaring that the only identity that America of today has is Mixed, biracial, multicultural...no binaries of black and white any more

Not the whole story, just some fragments of the days–-literary, political, sporting, and personal. Why call it “A ... A Chinese soldier and his mixed-blood daughter are at the center of this unflinching novel of the Civil War BY DON ...

He is a mixed-blood with a Lakota father and a French Canadian mother, but he doesn't think much about them. They are dead and thinking of them would only make him feel more uncomfortable and vulnerable in the world.

The Age Colours of conflict The Age This account of the mixed-race children of Japan, following the occupation by the Americans and other Allied nations after World War II, chronicles deeply troubling events in which Australians played a major role.

The Hunt for Zion Daily Beast The daughter of an interracial couple—her father is African-American; her mother of Irish descent—the author has already spent a lifetime grappling with other people's perceptions.

Globe and Mail Author Adam Mansbach finds the magic in graffiti Globe and Mail Kilroy Dondi Vance, a biracial teenager, is kicked out of his elite Manhattan prep school and his home for selling marijuana.

I'm of mixed blood. Native American and European. My Abenaki grandfather who raised me often told me how he left school in fourth grade by jumping out a window because his classmates kept calling him a dirty Indian.

There is a plethora of minor characters: a Haitian college professor of mixed race who extends his finances to buy a home in a white neighborhood and passes himself as "French", money mad art collectors who rabidly ...

Hiero, a mixed-race German, is so special a talent that he catches the attention of one Louis Armstrong - who invites the band to join him in Paris to cut a record. The tough decision to shut things down in Berlin is made easy for the band .....

Despite the quick pacing, McGrath does not skimp on character development, letting us into the inner world of the protagonist, Edie Kiglatuk, a mixed-blood Inuit/Caucasian. It's Edie who discovers the baby, and while this ...

For a person of mixed heritage, it is important to form a blend of the two that is unique to each person. This is especially true in America, which is known for being the “melting pot” of the world. For hundreds of years, people ...

It's a book of historical relevance in its revelations about resistance to Apartheid by South Africans of mixed race; and it is also a book of social relevance to the debate on racism today, in Australia, South Africa, and elsewhere ...

Marcia writes about racial passing, mixed race identities, media, religion, pop culture and politics for a variety of high-profile publications. Her expert opinion has been sought out by NPR, WABC-TV Boston, The New York ...

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